Supplement to the “ Tropical Agriculturist." 
369 
Nov. 1, 1897.] 
42,387 
43,064 
4,178 
4,950 
almost every village of the district. Only a few 
cases proved fatal. 
Cattle Keturn for the Central Province, 189b. 
Number of cattle : — 
Bulfaloes 
Black cattle and other breeds 
Number affected by disease : — 
Buffaloes 
Black cattle and other breeds 
Supposed nature of disease : Foot and-mouth 
disease and murrain. 
Recoveries ... ... ••• 7,669 
Deaths •• •• ••• li4£>y 
Northern Province.— Mannah : In January and 
February a purging sickness prevailed amongst black 
cattle and buffaloes in the Iluppnipadavaip Pattu, 
and 27 cattle died out of 52 attacked, the rest re- 
co.fering. The disease is believed to have been in- 
troduced from the adjacent Vanni villages where 
murrain was prevailing. 
About the same time somes cases of foot-and- 
mouth disease occurred at Kannarponnai, but no 
mortality was reported. The cattle were quite 
healthy during the rest of the year owing to the 
good supply of water and pasture. 
Number of 
Cattle. 
Number af- 
fected by 
Disease. 
Na- 
ture 
of Di- 
sease 
District. 
Buf- 
faloes 
Black 
Cattle 
or other 
Breeds. 
Buf- 
faloes 
Black 
cattle 
or 
other 
breeds 
Reco- 
veries 
A 
0> 
P 
Jaffna 
2,421 
137,996 
4:8 
813 
Mur* 
rain 
218 
1,013 
Mannar 
9,206 
25,214 
31 
21 
Purg- 
ing 
25 
27 
Mullaittivu ... 
Vavuniya . . 
5,362 
5,605 
3,442 
4,647 
368 
140 
Mur 
rain 
"so 
428 
Total ... 
22,594 
171,299 
817 
974 
323 
1,4.8 
193^893 
vailed to some extent in July in the Four Gravets 
and Wellaboda Pattu, in September in the Pour 
Gravets and Talpe Pattu, and in October in Bentota- 
Walallawiti Rorale. There was no serious loss. 
Eastern Prorince.— There were no cases of cattle 
murrain in this Province during 1896. Hoof-and- 
mouth disease prevailed all over the Batticaloa 
District and in the town of Trincomales and Kaddu- 
kulam Pattu, though not of a virulent type, and 
there were no cases of death from the disease. 
North Western-Province. Number of 
Number of Animals in- 
Plaee. 
Hiriyala hatpattu 
Weudawili hatpattu 
Wanni hatpattu 
Dewamedi hatpattu 
Katugampola hatpattu 
Dambadeni hatpattu ... — 
Chilaw District. — Cases of murrain were report- 
ed in July as having occurred in Pulichchakulam,but 
the animals were isolated and the disease did not 
spread. Cases of murrain were also reported from 
Millawa, Potuwatawana, and Kahatawala in the 
southern division. The disease was supposed 
to have been introduced by animals purchased from 
the North-Central Province. 19 head of cattle were 
Animals in- fected with 
fected with Foot-and- 
Murrain. mouth disease 
Nil ... Nil 
Nil ... Nil 
Nil ... Nil 
37 ... Nil 
629 ... Nil 
339 ... Nil 
attacked, but 3 only died, and the disease did no t 
spread further. No cases of murrian were reported 
from the central division. 
Cases of foot-and-mouth disease occurred in all 
three divisions, but no deaths seem to have followed. 
Puttalam District. — There has been little hoof- 
and-mouth disease within this district. The only 
imported outbreak was in Chenakudiyiruppu with- 
in the gravets of Puttalam in July, when 34 cases 
were reported. None of the animals attacked 
died. The village in question has an imported 
cattle trade, most of the animals being brought 
from the north. As regards murrain, Akkarai 
Pattu south, which connects Kalpitiya peninsula 
with the mainland, has been the worst sufferer. 
There was a sharp outbreak lasting through October 
and November, during which period 99 animals 
were reported attacked, chiefly at the important 
village of Kattakadu. In Demala Hatpattu, Pera- 
vili, and Pandita Pattus, which adjoin the Put- 
talam-Kurunegala road, have suffered rather badly. 
The disease is supposed to have been introduced 
into Pandita Pattu from Wilachchiya Korale in 
Anuradhapura. Puttalam Pattu itself has been 
singulary free, as only seven cases were reported. 
Of the animals attacked, about 100 were buf- 
faloes, the rest black cattle. The annexed state- 
ment shows the loss in each division : — 
Pattu. 
Affected. 
Died. 
Puttalam (January) 
... 7 
3 
Pandita (January to April) 
... 29 
3 
Peravili (August to November) 
... 57 
29 
Akkarai south (October to November) 99 
47 
Total 
... 192 
82 
North-Central Province . — Murrain has 
been 
prevalent in this Province throughout the year: 
during the first four months it existed in the 
Nuwaragampalata and Tamankaduwa district to a 
great extent. About the end of April Taman- 
kaduwa was freed from it, and nothing but a few 
cases of foot-and-mouth disease during the second 
half-year troubled that district again. In Nuwara- 
gampalata the disease continued throughout the 
year, although not with the severity of the first 
half-year. In Hurulupalata and Kalagampalata 
the disease has broken out at places now and again, 
but not to- the extent of the other two divisions, 
Hoof-and-mouth disease has prevailed only in 
Nuwaragampalata and the Meda Pattu of Taman- 
kaduwa, but it has not been much noticed. 
Cattle Return for the N.-C. Province for 1896. 
District, 
Number of 
Cattle. 
Number 
affected 
by Disease. 
cn 
<D 
o 
0 
W 
Black Cattle 
and other 
1 Breeds. 
Buffaloes. 
Black Cattle : 
* and other 
1 Breeds. | 
Nuwaragampalata 
18,300 
13,800 
4,000 
2,000 
Hurulupalata 
16,559 
20,126 
223 
118 
Kalagampalata . . 
Tamankaduwa District 
9,482 
2,338 
7,480 
4,450 
427 
85 
89 
120 
Total . . 
46,679 
4.5,856 
4,735 
2,327 
^ 1 
92,535 
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